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Installed (Pixel Fold 1). Nothing is visibly different.

* Saw an unexpected notification post-upgrade that, when I clicked it, took me to the wrong place. It was about "Body Sensor" permission for "Fit" which I assumed meant Google Fit needed additional info about my private health info. A crappy workflow for me, since the warning was real, I became alarmed .. hoping that "Fit" really was simply Google Fit, and ended up in Google Play Services' app information settings sheet.

* Took me to a 'welcome to new pixel' which has overgrown its UX with OS 16. It had 3 'new' features to tell me about - something about 'VIP' which seemed like over-optimization of a workflow. Some other stuff which was not relevant to me (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44245460). It also had an enormous list of differently colored (highlighted, not-highlighted) icons which led me to info about features, UGH .. in "Wizard" format (next, next, next) so I could not see an overview, nor know which I had previously viewed during the prior 15 OS iterations...so I abandoned that mini "Welcome" app.

-- Also, the mini videos in the "Welcome" app are inscrutable. My Pixel Fold 1 main screen is already small, and then the video illustrating the features is not zoomable. Clicking it merely pauses it. The videos show a hypothetical Pixel phone and a hypothetical human finger-tip dragging its way across the screen. Then the video wants me to read some of this 3x-too-small text, because THAT is the POINT of the video I had the most annoyance at .. the text content was somehow the feature. Yes I should have put my glasses on (+1.2 prescription - slight far-sighted), though it seems like I should be able to read the text-in-video from 2' away...it's literally the Welcome app, for ALL users, not some extra-niche app. Human Factors People gave zero shits about that IMO.



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